Madame Restell: The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Old New York's Most Fabulous, Fearless, and Infamous Abortionist

by Jennifer Wright

Horatio Storer, a twenty-seven-year-old Harvard-educated gynecologist who joined the AMA the year prior. Storer was fervently antiabortion. He believed that as soon as a woman was impregnated, the embryo was an independent person.